Friday, August 15, 2014

Another factory to become residential

The latest launching pad for big-scale residential development in Astoria, Queens, has hit the market with an asking price of $60 million. The development site, located at 11-12 30th Drive, a parcel that stretches from the Astoria waterfront along Vernon Boulevard inland to 12th Street, can accommodate up to 460,000 square feet of residential space according to sources. Height limitations permit a building up to 10-stories tall.

In the late 1990s, a storage yard at a plastics factory on the site was gutted by a massive fire.

The parcel is currently home to a single-story factory building occupied by Bohea Associates, a grocery wholesaler. Adam Spies and Doug Harmon, brokers at Eastdil Secured, are handling the sale of the property on behalf of owner Vernon Realty Associates.

That was a big fire - spread to the upper floors of the apartment building next door.

OKaaayyy.....

Anyone for the impact that thousands of people will have on the community WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE (you know, Hallets Cove, Astoria Cove, Ravenswood development, 21st Street development) - and speculation on who would actually live there, especially after the next Sandy?

How is a grocery supply factory converting to a residential site which will bring more people and life to a quiet desolate stretch a negative thing for artists? As a resident of the area, adding some diversity to this neighborhood will be a welcome addition. While I don't mind having the astoria houses as the majority of my neighbors an infusion of fresh blood and added foot traffic isn't a bad thing

How is a grocery supply factory converting to a residential site which will bring more people and life to a quiet desolate stretch a negative thing for artists?

Because Queens took a page from the Steinway Mansion effort, threw it under the bus because a couple of mugs made some pocket change donations,

then opened up the Kaufman Center, Long Island City Cultural Alliance, that Museum/Theater complex you can't get to in Flushing Meadows, and put someone from Queens as Cultural Commission (THAT should go over well in Brooklyn and Manhattan) and over funds perhaps a dozen groups that should be able to do their own funding without taxpayer support,

then has Jimmy Van Bramer brazenly stand in front of the cameras and tell everyone that he, and 'his' borough, is suddenly the cultural center of the city - all while doing everything it can to close former warehouse space like this location, 5 Pointz, LIC, and Queens Plaza which would be the places that artists can thrive.

You talk to any artist or artisan in western Queens and they can tell you that they feel they are not welcome because of development like this.

Just don't rub their faces into crap by telling everyone that Queens is in favor of the arts. The Queens Museum will never be the Brooklyn Museum, and LICCA will never be Museum Mile.

Anyone for the impact that thousands of people will have on the community WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE (you know, Hallets Cove, Astoria Cove, Ravenswood development, 21st Street development) - and speculation on who would actually live there, especially after the next Sandy?

Lets hear from Astorians especially. "

Read between the lines. My comment was on the stupidity of having a mixed use area where the industrial resident stored barrels of fuel right next to an apartment building. It's fortunate no one died that day.

As for how astoria residents feel? How the fuck do you think we 'feel'? Fuck feeling - the facts are simple: it's in a flood zone that was partially under water during sandy. There's also no current transportation options in the area. Development without infrastructure first is a recipe for disaster in any neighborhood. Development in a flood zone that will be under water due to rising ocean levels within the next 100 years is complete stupidity.

There's a gold rush on real estate along the east river water front, but anyone with half a fucking brain knows it's not gold, it's pyrite.

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